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Always felt like the camera was so massive due to the bellows focusing. I have a 500CM and a C220 and will admit that the bellows (albeit on a TLR) are so cool to shoot with. Thinking aloud here, this is probably why the Mamiya TLR systems are bigger than others in class.

i really REALLY enjoy your videos thoroughly. very thoroughly.

This made me miss my rz76pro II I stupidly sold many years ago. Earlier this year I got a Pentax 645nii but I still think about those 6x7 negatives.

Great video, and the new studio is 🔥

Dear algorithm.. Why the hell haven't you sent me this content before. Great stuff, Jesse. I'll be binge watching your channel for the next few days!

Outstanding content. I laughed so hard that you earned my sub. I have two Yashicas TLRs that I love so much. They were my first cameras when I started photography in 1972 when I was 12. I tried the Mamiya 645 a long time ago, and I am looking into getting one. Thanks for the video.

An RB67 ProSD is my every day carry with a 90mm lens and hand grip. It's fantastic for hand carry.

fun video and got a good chuckle out of the "presence" of those chickens.

Nice cameras. Your photos were underexposed. I always open up one stop in shadows. And use flash indoors.

It looks so good on you, Jesse. A match made in heaven. :-) Cheers! //Rick

I love the intentionality approach, careful you don’t go down the futurism route of trying to distill art though. There has been some garbage made looking for meta meaning.

Thanks for sharing, that was fun. I have 100 cameras at last count... including RB67, 503CX, LEICA M3, TWO BARNACS, WISTA 4X5 PLUS 94 MORE... THEY ALL FOUND ME LOL

I‘m quite tall myself and carry this tank around more often than I’d like to admit. I absolutely love The RB ❤ and I think I understand the Aspect ratio of 6x7 better than 35mm 🤔 I‘ve taken much better pictures on it, than on any 35mm camera with lenses from 24-135 mm focal length. Great Video and photos! Greetings from Germany

I think that camera looks great on you. Now, imagine if you also get a Hasselblad hehehehe Have a good one cheers!

Great blog, thank you!!

That montage at 0:27 . *Michael Bay has entered the chat*

RZ67 was my dream camera too. Somewhere along the way I got distracted and ended up with lots of other cameras instead :) Really love your style and humour. Enjoyed spending 14 mins with you today!

So true about perfect cameras finds us. Have you tried the Fuji GX680? A nice big camera for a big man.

God dammit I LOVE your videos so much. I wish more people appreciated them as much as I do. I’m an audio visual technician (mostly tv but sometimes indie shorts) so I know. I know. Big hugs from Chile, keep making these please!

I'd like a bokeh family 😊

Really fun experience. Like any hobby photographer, I have GAS for whatever camera I don't have. I naturally want a medium format camera now. Film, even though...eeesh, film. ;) In a lot of ways, you sold me on the TLR. ;)

Dartboard & old tv - noice ✌️The RB was my first medium format. Definitely a solid starting point

Too funny. I was recently looking at the same camera, with a bunch of lenses on marketplace and it was a great deal...but i didn't do it. I'll have to live vicariously through you.

Cool video and I like the new setup! I have an RZ67 which I absolutely love. The size and weight of it though does keep me from taking it out a lot. Wish I could just shrink it down a little bit to bring it along with me. Oh and I’m definitely one with the bokeh. 😁

Darn, Jesse! I found your channel like a week or two ago and I binged all your vids plus rewatched some even if the topic is not entirely relative to my interests (I'm more of a video gal) and I swear I can spend all day listening to you talking. It's such a calm vibe, and your advice give a whole different (and valuable) perspective than all the other photography/videography channels. Ps: The unexpected twisted jokes that keep going deeper and deeper are the best. Please keep feeding my need for animated pictures through the screen. 💜 Cheers from Spain!

Intentional. That's the word I would use to describe medium or large format film photography Jesse. I shot the Hasselblad 500 Series commercially for 10 years before transitioning to digital. In the studio, it was always on a camera stand, and in the field it was either on a tripod or handheld. I would highly recommend a tripod to maximize results. The Hassy 6x6 has a mirror pre-release function that slaps the mirror up, before you tenderly snick the Zeiss leaf shutter (preferably with a cable release). Vivian got away with hand holding her TLR, because there was no mirror slap.

Yes!!! Thanks for the video, great stuff!

I absolutely love your videos.

Fun and funny. Thanks again for another great video!

LETS GO HES BACKKKKKk im a film student at liberty university, i love your videos, huge inspiration to me <3

As much as I hate the RB67, I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Great channel man. Subbed

Wonderful! As usual.

Finally emerged from the Bokeh forest to post another video. Also, my son and I set up a little studio in the garage. Let me know what you think. Nice to film a bit wider and be less self conscious about nose hairs while filming.

I owned a 500CM for a bunch of years. Sometimes I pull out the negatives and it makes me want to toss all my digital gear into the pond. Selling that camera is one of my biggest regrets in life. It was an absolute work of art.

this camera was my intro to film photography - I was gifted a broken one as a teenager and when I moved to New York I went to a shop and got it fixed. I've taken some of my favorite photos of friends on this thing. But I always forget how to use it since I only take it out about once a year. I love this camera (it looks great on you)

Can't wait to get into the 6x7 medium format world. Shooting only 35mm rn

This is a very cool video, but for some reason, I'm looking at this old TV bleeping behind you. Is it me, or is it a little bit too much distraction?

problem with medium format is there are no super-wide open aperture high quality lenses. 35mm will always win over EVERYTHING just because of it's widest adaptation and longest run in existance.

It looks good on you. 📷🧑‍💼completely justified

Jesse, I have recently found your content and it's helped me immeasurably. I am a little stuck in the rat race and developing the discipline needed to be a functioning adult who is progressing, but with that progression I have lost a little of what makes me 'me'. I have always been passionate about cinema and in today's age of short form content I realised I dont watch enough films. I have put 15 second instagram videos down and once again enjoy being enveloped in the beautiful escapism that is cinema. This inspired me to start a new hobby of photography and cinematography and thus I stumbled across your channel. As a brit, your deadpan delivery is easy to relate to, and your ideas and messages are the ones I needed to hear. I made my first edit yesterday and it's shit but I'm proud of it. So... thank you for being MY therapy. Support from Liverpool, UK.

A lot of bla bla bla with 2 foto's as result ,another waist of my time !!!!

this was incredible. subscribed. ✌

1:14 my guy ..i don't even have the garage (or implied home) part to this question yet 😭

The professionalism you bring to these tips is so refreshing. Really stands out against the sea of YT filmmakers bros popping up left and right. Thank you!

Lovely video, laughed out loud and learned a lot. Subbed!

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The heavier cam is so real. I didn’t realize that what I was missing until recently. Got me setting up v mount rigs for my mirrorless to help add weight and balance

Yeah dude, its existed . Lol

tbf there's plenty of landscape and urban photographers that can tell stories without subjects. If you wanna be more of a filmmaker i get that but it's not like it's impossible to take images without subjects and have them not feel emptyl

Great video with super advice. Glad I found your channel. BTW - thank you much for the section on the importance of art direction in film making. My father was an art director back in the "golden era" of motion picture production. In my opinion, its impact on outcome of a film has always been downplayed.